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    "content": "family, brothers, sisters, as Kenyans and as Members of the various constituencies or counties. Therefore, I also at this point and juncture ask our friends in the Council of Governors to see the merit in this Bill. We have absolutely, as a Senate, no other better ally in the enforcement and entrenchment of devolution than the Governors. Therefore, what we do here is in that very spirit so that we can work as partners. If Sen. Sang has given us a legal framework that ensures that we can then take our consultations and companionship to a new level; that it is given a framework of law; that it is not just meetings under some amorphous frameworks; that every commitment is then captured in minutes and programmes, and that is the kind of initiative that every Governor needs to embrace. Therefore, I am clear that this Senate views the Governors as its most fundamental ally in the deliverance of devolution and the development of the people. Therefore, it was never and it can never be the intention of this Senate at any point in time to either abrogate the Constitution or to abrogate itself the role of the Executive. We are totally conscious of the roles that we have been delegated in the Constitution, and we explored these roles critically before we chose the positions we wanted to occupy. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank Sen. Sang for this extra-ordinary debate that he has created; which he has crystallized into a substantive element of law that has a broad public appreciation; that has broad public support and I want to believe that this Senate, in passing this Bill, will have discharged its mandate in terms of institutionalization of devolution in the manner that history will judge us for all the right things that we have done; and that this House of chaos that has been created with the advent of various multiple tiers of elections will be now transformed into a House of order; due to the order that has been created by this Bill. With those few remarks, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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